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V Miracle Finish Mow Required To Catch Braves in National By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The National league's chances of heading off Milwaukee's pen nant express rested today on the forlorn hope that one of the Braves' bedraggled pursuers can match the 1951 Giants' "miracle finish." The Braves Just about com pleted Ja peration wrapup' Thursdanight when they crush ed the Cincinnati Redlegs, 8-1 to run their winning streak to 10 games and their first-place lead to 8V2. Hank Aaron drove in five runs with his 33rd and 34th homers and Warren Spahn spun an eight-hitter as the Braves whipped the Redlegs for the 14th time in 16 meetings. That 8V-game lead with only 41 games to play places the Brrves in almost exactly the sane position as were the 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgen led by nine games with 41 to plsy that year only to have the "Giants win 30 of their last 36 games and then win the result ing playoff on Bobby Thomson's famous home run. Contenders Collapsing The major difference in the corresponding positions of the '57 Braves and '51 Dodgers is that the "miracle Giants" had already begun to make their move while all the current "con tenders" are in a state of virtual collapse. The St. Louis Cardinals have lost 9 in a row, the Dodgers have dropped 7 of their last 10, Williams Gains Five on Mantle Washington IP Ted Wil lams gained five big points on Mickey Mantle in their "man-to-man" three-duel in Boston and will carry a .393 average into ttrsht's game with the Washington Senators. The Boston Red Sox slugger hit a double and a single in three official tries yesterday to give him five hits in eight trips and a .625 mark for the series with the Yankees. Mantle, mean while, went hitless in two trips yesterday and walked thre times. Leaque Leaders .334 Pet. .333 J23 .329 .327 o .393 .393 .320 .318 317 Bv UNITED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE Aaron. Mil. ..110 449 91 150 Player ft Club C. AB R.; H. Musial. S. L. 112 438 67 145 Mavs. N. Y. 114 432 83 142 Groat. Pgh. 88 347 41 114 Robis'n. Cin. 10B 443 77 14S AMERICAN LEAGUE Will'nu, Bos. 107 354 79 139 Mantle. N. Y. 113 376 101 143 Boyd. Baltl. 107 3B2 57 116 Woodl'g. Cle. 98 308 53 98 Fox. Chi. 113 445 77 141 nnnia nnm ' National lcacu Aaron. Braves 34: Snider. Dodgen 29: Crowe. Red legs 28: Mavi. Giants 26; Musial. Cards 25; Banks. Cubs 25. American league Mantle. Yanks 32; Williams. Red Sox 31: Sievers, Senators 30: Wertz. Indians 20; Cola vito. Indians 20: Zernlal, Athletics 20. Runs Batted In Natinnnl league Aaron. Braves 93: XTu.ial. Cards 88: Crowe. Redlegs 77; Mays. Giants 74; Hodges, Dodgers 70. American league Mantle. Yanks 83: Sievers. Senators 81: Wertz, In dians 78; Skowron, Yanks 74; Jen sen. Red Sox 73. Pitching Schmidt, Cards 10-1: Narleskl. In Him 9-2 Donovan. White Sox 13-3 Sanford, Phils 15-4: Grim, Yanks 10-3; Tuney, xanke iu-J- STANDINGS San Francisco . Vancouver San Diego Hollvwood Seattle Los Angeles Sacramento Portland W. L. Pet. GB 78 52 .600 74 54 .578 3 72 58 .563 5 73 57 .562 5 67 63 .515 11 58 70 .453 19 49 82 .374 29 'i 47 84 .359 31 is Thursday's Results San Francisco 13. Portland 6 Hollywood 3, Vancouver 1 Los Angeles 3. San Diego 2 Seattle 3. Sacramento 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Milwaukee St. Louis Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia New York -Chicago Pittsburgh - , 71 , 62 63 61 59 52 , 42 41 42 50 51 52 53 63 69 71 Pet .628 .554 .553 .540 .527 .452 378 J 66 GB 10 ll'j 20 28 29 "i Thursday's Results New York 9. Brooklyn 4 Chicago 4. Si. Louis 1 Milwaukee 8. Cincinnati 1 (night) (Only games scheduled.) Saturday's Games Pittsburgh at Brooklyn New York at Philadelphia Cincinnati at Chicago St. Louis at Milwaukee AMERICAN LEAGUE New York . Chicago Boston Baltimore Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Washington W. L. Pet. GB 4 39 .655 68 44 .607 5'i 1 52 -540 13 55 56 .495 18 55 58 .487 19 54 60 .474 20 ' i 43 71 .377 31', 42 72 .308 32 ij n Thursday's Results New York 6. Boston 3 n Cleveland 5. Chicago 4 Kansas City 7, Detroit 2 f (Only games scheduled.) Saturday's Games Chicago at Detroit Cleveland at Kansas City (night) Baltimore at New York Boston at Washington W. L. Pet GB 32 15 .681 28 19 .596 4 26 21 .553 6 20 25 .444 11 19 29 .396 1312 15 31 .326 16 '2 the Redlegs have lost 8 of their last 12 and the Philadelphia Phillies 10 of their last 13. Aaron, who had hit only .271 in the previous 15 games with the Redlegs, sent the Braves off winging with a three-run homer off Hal Jeffcoat in the first in ning and hen blasted a two-run hner off Don Gfoss in the sev enth. Aaron, shooting for the NL's first triple crown since 1937, now leads the majors with 34 homers and 9) runs batted in and holds a one-point lead over Stan Musial, .334 to .333, in the league batting race. Spahn, beating the Redlegs for the fifth straight 4ime this season and the 4th time in his career yielded an unearned run in the second inning on Don Hoak's double, an errr by Aaron and Johnny Temple's single. Ed Mathews and rookie Bob Hazle also homered for the Braves, who have socked Cincinnati pitching for a .304-team batting average in the 16 games. Cards Keep Loosing Moe Drabowsky pitched a six- hitter for the Chicago Cubs, whose 4-1 victory extended the Cardinals' losing streak to their longest since 1947. Dale Long and Chuck Tanner homered be hind Drabovsky, who struck out seven while notching his ninth win. Sam Jones was tagged with his seventh defeat and his third during the Cardinals' losing skein. Light-hitting catcher Valmy Thomas knocked in four runs with a homer and triple to lead the Giants to a 9-4 conquest of the Dodgers. Ramon Monzant re ceived credit for his first win al though Red Worthington held the Dodgers hitless over the last three innings. Don Drysdale suf fered his 7th loss compared to 10 victories. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were not scheduled. The New York Yankees re gained a 5'2-game lead in the American league when they beat the Boston Red Sox, 6-3, and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Chicago White Sox, 5-4. . The Kansas City Athletics downed the Detroit Tigers, 7-2, in the other game. Gil McDougald's two-run eighth-inning homer was the big blow for the Yankees as Bob Turley won his 10th game with relief aid from Bob Grim. Ted Williams had two of the Red Sox" nine hits' to raise his aver age to .393 while Mantle went hitless in two tries and dropped to .380. Chico Fernandez' grand-slam homer in the sixth inning enab led the Indians to snap their six game losing streak and Chicago's three-game winning skein. Don Mossi went all the way to win his ninth game while Jack Harshman suffered his seventh defeat. Billy Hunter had a single, dou ble and triple and Billy Martin and Woody Held each homered to spark an 11-hit Kansas City attack that tagged 14-game win ner Jim Bunning with his fifth loss. Johnny Grolh and Harvey Kuenn each had two hits for Detroit. Pal Recalls Days With Babe Ruth Philadelphia HP) Senti mental old Benny Bengough turned the T:lock back 30 years today to reminisce about his by gone buddy, Babe Ruth, on the ninth anniversary of the Babe's death. Bennie, now a coach with the Philadelphia Phillies, was one of Ruth's closest baseball pals. They never roomed together but the Babe and Bengough were in separable on and off the field. "I used to warm up the Babe before each game, Bengough recalls. "As soon as the players started to throw to one another on the sidelines, he'd bellow. 'Where's Barney Google?' That was his nickname for me. "You know we rarely called him Babe. Our favorite nick name for the guy was 'Jidge.' I don't know why we decided on this but it stuck with the Babe for the eight years I spent with the Yankees from 1923 to 1930. Great Clubhouse Jokester "The guy was a 'great jokester in the clubhouse but dead serious on the field. I recall the day he spit tobacco juice all over and in Wilcey Moore's' undersocks. But the next day, he showed up with a dozen undersocks which he had bought for Moore. "Then Babe would wait until players taped their pant legs to their stockings and as they turned their backs to him, pre paring to pull up their pants, the Babe would cut off the back part of the tape with scissors. "The big guy had a heart of gold. When the Yanks played at the Polo Grounds, they used to give a pair of shoes to everyone who hit a homer. Well, Babe would take the shoes and we'd deliver them to orphanages. "I also recall many visits we made together to hospitals to see crippled and ailing kids. We would get to a town and pretty soon the phone would ring in my room and the Babe would say, 'Let's go, Barney, I have a call or two to make.' So off we would go with an autographed baseball, a glove, a bat or some gift to a hospitalized kid. Pitched Exhibition Games "My greatest thrill in those years with the Yanks was being Babe's battery mate. Yeah, I caught him in the exhibition games he used to pitch against Boston when we went there to play the Braves. Perhaps the funniest incident of all was the year Babe fell into a batting slump. He was a super stitious guy and a jokester like I said. He decided to put Jimmy Reese in a locker and keep him there until the club was ready to go onto the field. "The first time Babe did this, he got two hits. So it became a ritual with him to lock Reese in the locker daily. Well, one day we went on the field and along about the fifth or sixth inning, Miller Huggins looked around for Reese to pinch-hit. But Jimmy wasn't to be found. The Babe had forgot to unlock the locker." "Yeah, ole Jidge was quite a guy. He had a great sense of humor. He was the butt of some jokes but almost always he held the upper hand. He was sincere and a terrific competitor. He was always giving the rookies words of advice. He liked kids." ISPORTSl 1 1 1 1 Upper Rogue Fish Report Challenged Reports that fishing is not good on the upper Rogue riv er have been challenged by a number of resident along the stream. Fish are being taken from the river, it was asserted. Some nice iteelhead have been landed and limit catches of good sized trout have been reported. - Good catches have been made on flies. Will Mays Only Attraction at NY Polo Grounds New York OP) Willie Mays says he'll "follow the crowd" xo San Francisco but it's obviuus his heart still lies in the t Polo Grounds, where he is the only attraction pulling in the last remaining die-hards today. "I'll miss this place," said the Giant center fielder, gesturing toward the familiar Polo Grounds' landscape. "I'll miss it more'n anybody knows. The fans have been great to me here . . . I feel like this is my horns and these are all my friends. "But I go where the team goes. If it's San Francisco, that's it. I've been there a coupla' times. Exhibition games, you know. It seemed okay to me. Struck me as a real big city, with a lot of people, just like this one." Only 7,587 fans turned .out to watch the Giants beat the Dodgers, 9-4, Thursday, and there was little doubt from their pre-game comments that a sub stantial number of them plunk ed down the. admission price merely to see Mays. Australian .Pursuit Race On Spturday Hardtop Slate An Australian pursuit race first time in the top 12 this will he the added attraction Sat urday night when hardtop auto races resum at Valley View track two miles this side of Ash land. In the race the faster cars will start tt the rear. When a car is passed it is out of the race. The regular program of racing is also slated with the usual heats, trophy dashes, main and semi-main. Time trials are at 7 p.m. with the first race at 8 p.m. - At least three cars are ex pected from Klamath Falls. Lemley Leads Wayne Lemley A-57, contin ues to lead the chase for the point etiampionship of the 1957 season. His count is up 337! Crock Hunter 15-X, still is sec ond with 307 and Asher, C-l, has 260. Bob McGilvray, C-50, and Bob Wilcox, M-3, are knotted for fourtla with 233 apiece. Others in the top 12 are Lou Kurz, M-7, with 210, Bob Jen kins, M-4, with 207, Elmer Sise more, M-43, with 204; Wally Cannon, A-20, and John Jones, M-5, each with 187, Lee Davis, M-14, with 138, and Jack Keck, M-44, with 127. It is Keek's season. plans for a destruction race have been delayed until enough cars are rounded up. It may be staged next wek end. Althea Faces Girls Champ Manchester, Mass. (UT Wim bledon Champion Althea Gibson met young Mimi Arnold of Red wood City, Calif., today in the second half of the qiiaterfinals of the Essex County club's 30th Women's Invitational Tennis tournament. The 17-year-old Miss Arnold, who is national girls champion, moved into today's match with a hard fought victory over vet eran Margaret Varner of El Paso, Tex., Wednesday. Miss Gibson has had little trouble thus far in the tourna ment, winning both previous matches in two sets. She has lost only six of 30 games. In the other match today thjrd seeded Dorothy Knode of Forest Hills, N. Y., faced Shirley Bloom er of Great Britain, the top-seeded foreign entry. Second-seeded Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, Calif., defeated Janet Hopps of Seattle, Wash., 6-3, 6-2, to move into the semi finals of the tournament Thurs day. Beaverton Beats Drain Portland HP) Drain suf fered its first defeat in the state AABC tournament Thursday night, dropping a 5-3 decision to Showboat of Beaverton. This leaves Showboat and Archer Blower & Pipe the only unbeat en teams in the double-elimination tournament. Chain Saw Gains Knot For Second M and W Chain Saw regained a second place knot in the Jack son County Softball association last night by defeating National Uuard 4 to 3 at Camp White. xwenty-Thirty club nipped Morse Motors 17 to 16 in a widp open game which put Morse DacK into the cellar. Chain Sawmen overcame an 0 to 3 deficit with all their markers in the sixth inning. Owen Bristlin, Larry Slessler and Dick Meister socked singles in the frame. Lou Schell tripled and scored on Willard Barnum's sacrifice flyout. Morse, trailins 7 fn 13 senrorl eight runs in the sixth to go in tront is to 13. However, 20-30 got four counters in the seventh inning to one by Morse. SHORT SCORES: H H E M-W Chain Saw 4 5 3 National Guard - 3 4 0 Barnum, Brittsan 5 and Gar ner, Bnttsan 2, Bristlin 5; D. Vessey and Tonn. R H E 20-30 Club 17 11 4 Morse Motors 16 12 3 Romine and Reeves; Morgan and Smith. All-Comer Track Meet Saturday Portland' Another all-comers track and field meet will be held here on Saturday, Aug. 17. Location is the Jefferson high track. Junior and girls events will begin at 3 p.m. and high school and open divisions at 6 p.m. The meet is sponsored by the Portland Track and Field club and has AAU sanction. Bill Sorsby and Doug Basham are directors. VFW Rifle Shoot To Be on Sunday CFW Rifle and Pistol club of Medford will have its last regu lar big bore rifle shoot of the season Sunday, Aug. 18, at the Camp White range. The range will open at 6:30 a.m.' and members are asked to be on hand early since targets may have to be pasted. Club policy of accepting new members at the range is still in force. Information on the club may be obtained by telephoning Secretary William O. Burnette (SP 2-8421). Detroit (IP) Amid the recent heavy rains, the Tyre drive-in theater displayed the current movie: "Many Rivers to Sross." Friday, August 16. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN September 18 Deadline for Elk Applications Portland At this time of year it is a difficult job to get nimrods thinking about the hunting seasons to come. Warm, balmy summer days seem to hold the hunter's enthusiasm dor mant. With most hunters it takes a few frosty nights and nippy mornings before the hunting urge can be generated. But once the autumn air turns crisp it's time for action, and hunters are then hard to hold. A word of warning though. The hunting seasons are creep ing up. Hunters who don't want to get caught short had better shake off that summer lethargy, especially if they want to par ticipate in the special and con trolled hunts. There are lots of shoots to choose from, 12 for elk and eight for deer. There is no extra fee for the elk hunts except an applicant must have a general elk tag. A $5 fee is charged for all of the special deer .hunts, which could provide a bonus deer for those participating. In other words, a hunter may take a deer on his regular deer tag and an additional one on the $5 tag. That is, he can if he's lucky. Deadline for submitting elK applications is Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. These applications must be in the game commission's Portland office on that date. This means that upstate hunters must sub mit applications several days in advance of this date in order for them to reach Portland by the closing date. Closing date for deer applications has been set for 5 p.m. on Sept. 10. A total of 2000 permits will be issued for the 12 unit elk hunts which will allow the hold er to take an animal of either sex from the area for which he holds a permit. Deer hunters will have a chance to draw for 4,300 tags in the eight controlled deer areas. In five of the areas antlerless deer must be taken, while in the other three a deer of either sex is allowed. Stars Dash Mcuntie Hopes; Beavers Try Dairy Maids Play Ashland Team Camp White Rogue Valley Dairy Maids will meet an Ash land YMCA men's team this evening at Memorial field here. Game time is 7:30 p.m. The Maids were recent parti cipants in the women's state softball tourney at Eugene. They won the sportsmanship award and Shortstop Bernice Bigham was named to the all-state team as a utility infielder. By JIM HEALY United Press Sports Writer The Hollywood Stars, never ones to let down when the go ing gets sticky, Thursday night dashed Vancouver's hopes of moving to within one notch of the Pacific Coast league leader ship or even maintaining the status quo. Hollywood downed the Mo'eyv ties 3-1 In a hard foueht duel. while San Francisco, which Van couver is desperately trying to catch, stomped all over its fa vorite club in the league Port land. That score was a lopsided 13-6. The net result is that Van couver is now bacft to tfiree games from the top, while Holly wood is a single percentage point from third place San Degio. Angels Help Los Angeles helped the situa tion by taking the Padres, 3-2, and in the other loop contest, Seattle blanked Sacramento, 2-0. One thing. You can't say the Beavers didn't try. Frank Kel lert and Hayward Sullivan hom ered to help give the Seals a six run lead going into the bottom of the fifth. Tllen Portland lashed back for six tallies of its own. But it must have taken all the Beavers' drive because they never scored again. Migratory Bird Stamps on Sale Duck stamps are now on sale at the Medford post of fice, and at the tub station on East Main, it was announced today. The stamps, which must be attached to the hunt license and endorsed, cost S2 each. Prospective duck hunters are asked to buy their duck stamps as early as possible to avoid a possible rush as the hunting season opens, witn the result that the supply will be exhausted. Portland (IB The State Game Commission said today it would set dates for Oregon's migratory Waterfowl season early next week. The Interior department has announced a 95-day season cr the Pacific flyway, an increase of 15 days over last year. In dividual states may set the dates for their seasons which, must be between the dates of October 1 and January 15. Earl Rapp and Bob Borkow ski uncorked homers for Port land in that grand fifth frame. Leo Kiely won, his 18th against four losses. A?pi is Coming to town! fuzz Ik" SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER Easy to Operate Clean and Dustiest Low Rental Rates Ws Handle Everything You Need for Floor Refinishing iTYfroYni SsfCIAliSTI IN HOMfWAftfSI 3 Wesf 6th St., Medford j Wenatchee . 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